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...fewer than seven of the 14 1968 Olympians will be going to Munich next month, and six of them rowed for Harvard's varsity at one time or another. Which seems to indicate that Harvard has had the best oarsmen in the nation all along, just as it did in 1968, when the Crimson varsity edged Pennsylvania in a showdown at Long Beach to earn a ticket to Mexico. Or that Parker, who has been varsity coach at Cambridge for a decade, is biased in favor of his own followers, which is what a few rival coaches are muttering...
...Terry, a 175-pound metronome will stroke, and Paul Hoffman '69, who enraged stolid U.S. Olympic officials with his support of the black athlete protest in 1968, will be coxswain. Two other Harvard oarsmen, lightweight stroke Tony Brooks and heavyweight captain Dave Sawyier, will go to Munich either as members of the four-with-cox or as spares...
Brandt hopes to impress his status-conscious fellow Germans with his role as a world statesman by playing host to the great and famous at the Munich summer Olympics. In addition, Brandt would like to star at an October summit that would chart the Ten's course according to his vision of a strong united Europe that would work in close harmony with the U.S. This would help him allay the suspicions of many West German voters that his Ostpolitik has made the country too susceptible to pressures from the East bloc...
...Ryun finished fourth in the 800 meter run finals at the United States Men's Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon Saturday, and thus failed to qualify to run that event at the Games in Munich later this summer. Dave Wottle, a Bowling Green junior, tied the world record of 1:44-3 in winning the race. Rick Wohlhuter of Illinois was second at 1:45.0, Ken Swenson was third at 1:45.1, while Ryun finished an agonizing yard back of a place on the team...
Olympic Committee, also seemed to be in Hunter's corner last week. "We believe that it is our prerogative to decide who goes to the Games," he told TIME Reporter-Researcher Kathleen Cooil. "If Hunter qualifies at the U.S. boxing trials next month, he will go to Munich and stay with the rest of the team at Olympic Village...